That's the only place I tried, besides Old Economy Park where I lived for 11 years. That place should be great...it's where they have their annual "Great Snow Shovel Race".
I lived on Forcey Drive and owned the small red brick ranch just inside the park on the left. On snowy days, I was lucky to get out of my driveway from all the sledders driving around the circle dropping off or picking kids up on the slope. They had those races since at least the early 60's from what my neighbors told me.
The park in general dates to the late 50's when Dr.Forcey donated the property to the county for a park and sold about a dozen lots for private use.
I did try detecting the slope once while I lived there but I was trying to use an old Whites coinmaster 3000 series with a screwed up discrimination....and that ground is highly mineralized. In all my years there I never once saw anyone else detecting it...could be a good spot for someone with a decent detector that will ground bal good and can handle the high mineralization.
You gotta figure, those snow shovel races drew, and still draw close to a hundred spectators and participants. All age levels participate and quite a few roll off their shovels and tumble down the hill.
If you detect this area, I'd start directly across from where my old house was. That's where the hill seems steepest and where the races ran from. It's just to the left of the monument in the park.
Also, another interesting thing about Old Economy Park, there is an old clay mine back in the woods. There is a marker in the vicinity placed by the Girl Scouts, who did a project there. If you follow the boy scout trail, I believe it passes it.
There has also been boy scout camp outs by the Corn Crib Shelter and up on the hill near the tennis courts.
Along a path by the tennis courts, the boy scouts built a really nice log building for a project. They were suppose to tear it back down...dont know if they did or not.
Below the Barn, off to the right is the foundation of something, probably a spring house, but there is a ton of poison ivy growing there. Just below that is a small pond with gold fish in it but I think it boarders private property and the guy that lives in the house next to it is well known locally as a crazy man.
If you go hike along the trail across from the barn, there's what I think is remnants of a house. There are some timbers laying and staked in the ground that I can only figure was a garden squared off.
If someone wants to try this area some day...now that I got a better machine it will certainly go up on my list of places to detect.....I can give the grand tour that , just hiking, would probably take a couple hours walking to see all the shelters and such.
Al
. For some reason, my dad let that spill before he died.
